EXCERPTS FROM THE AUBREY EXPERIMENTS In case it had something to offer us, yesterday I experimented with trying to figure out what the point might be of the Aubrey Center being off-centered. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone give an accounting for that and it seems like a very strange thing without someContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 9”
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What’s New? (Petrie’s Pyramid Rectangles, Pt 1)
Happy New Year! I hope 2020 is kinder to us all than the past year has been to many of us. I’d love to start the New Year off with a bang with some new discoveries, but I think I’ve nearly bitten off more than I can chew. Probably not a smart thing to doContinue reading “What’s New? (Petrie’s Pyramid Rectangles, Pt 1)”
An Experiment with a Putative Indus Foot
Jim Wakefield managed to bring the Indus foot to my attention – it’s about 13.2 inches or 13.2 / 12 = 1.1 feet. I’d rather shy away from the subject because it could have been tough determining just how many feet that was supposed to be (1.111111111 for starters?), but I finally noticed that 13.2Continue reading “An Experiment with a Putative Indus Foot”
Some Musings on the Nippur Cubit and the Persian Cubit
Some of this I’ve posted elsewhere in various forms, but I don’t know if I’ve ever written anything very comprehensive. I don’t have much to say on the Nippur Cubit, I haven’t paid it enough attention although I did recently nominate a value of 1.689907782 ft as being one possibility, in spite of the temptationContinue reading “Some Musings on the Nippur Cubit and the Persian Cubit”
More About Stonehenge
The Mean Circumference of the Sarcen Circle With the model we have so far, which thus far only describes the sarcen circle, we have circumference values of 326.4209971 ft (outer circumference) or 120 Meg Yards of 2.720174976 feet, and 305.7985077 ft (inner circumference). We can also determine a mean circumference value — 326.4209971 + 305.7985077Continue reading “More About Stonehenge”
The Sharpest Tools In My Kit
When confronted with an unfamiliar number, I use various strategies to try to identify it. If someone wants to try their hand at Munck’s style of math and have their own adventures with it, they may often encounter numbers that they’re not sure belong to the system of numbers or not. When we can takeContinue reading “The Sharpest Tools In My Kit”
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